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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2002 23:40:48 +0100
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I'm impressed, but ...
Message-ID:  <20021207224048.GG27267@juno.home.paeps.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20021207221018.GA373@raggedclown.net>
References:  <20021125004934.GA604@juno.home.paeps.cx> <20021207194135.GD27267@juno.home.paeps.cx> <20021207221018.GA373@raggedclown.net>

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On 2002-12-07 23:10:18 (+0100), Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:41:35PM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > On 2002-11-25 01:49:34 (+0100), Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx> wrote:
> > Perhaps someone can make sense of this?  I'm happy I can read my mail now,
> > without having to kick the power button every so often, but I'd prefer to
> > store my mail here and have the mailserver write over NFS.  (Mainly for
> > speed reasons).
> 
> I suspect file locks across NFS as a possible source of this kind of
> problem.

Locking is always a problem over NFS :-/  It's one of the reasons I'm using
maildirs instead of normal happy mboxes.  

Theoretically - correct me if I'm wrong - file locks shouldn't matter with
maildirs as once a file is written, there's not much chance of it having to be
written again, let alone by more than one process?

How would one verify that NFS locking is causing pain?  There's some NFS
debugging stuff in NOTES... I'm willing to try anything to help fix this :-)

 - Philip

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